@ toxonic & boonier: may i ask what the use of such a timecode would be? i was just fiddling with a small sync patch to get a mini-sequencer inside a pdvst plugin, when it occured to me, that every parameter is already automatable/editable along the timeline within the host.
... which then would be a precise timecode for any parameter one would want i n the plugin.

or are you wondering about a mini timeline within the plugin, like i.e. dblue_glitch has? then, a seq, that rewinds itself on stop is enough? that should be easy.

i am at a loss though, when it comes to a real timestamp/songposititon being sent from the host.

i just tried the whole thing with a simple reverb during my lunchbreak and it worked (for me) as follows, using ableton live 7:

• put "pdvst" folder (the whole unpacked thing from the download, including the custom pd program) in C:\Program Files\Ableton\Live 7.0.3\Program

• copied the PD_Gain.pd and PD_Gain.pdv to my pd installation to edit it. (at least i can't really edit with the pd version in the pdvst folder, it's obviously just meant to run in the backgorund, when the DAW starts)

• edited the .pd and .pdv files to make them what you see in the attachment. i threw out the gripd stuff to erase a possible error-source. maybe comparing your pdv file to mine, you find if there's something wrong with it.

• copied the finished, now named PD_freeverb.pd and PD_freeverb.pdv back into the pdvst folder within the ableton live folder. since my patch uses the external "freeverb~.dll" (which comes with pd-extended), i copied that file into the pdvst folder as well. - the according line in the pdv file needs to point to this lib.

• made a copy of the template dll and named it PD_freeverb.dll

• put the PD_freeverb.dll into my vst-plugins directory (the one monitored by live)

started live - the plugin shows up as a (audio) vst plugin. all fine.

since i set the line

# Display Pd GUI or not
DEBUG = TRUE

in the pdv file, i get the full patch and surprisingly can even edit it, while having it running as a plugin. i doubt, that this is a safe way of working though. ^_^

i hope that all helps somehow.

attached are the PD_freeverb.pd, PD_freeverb.pdv, PD_freeverb.dll and freeverb~.dll (from the newest pd-extended installer)

edit: the only thing "suspicious" is that when i start live, a messagebox comes up, telling me that pd has crashed/exited. (pd was not run by me at that point)
however, observing the taskmanager, whenever i load the plugin into a track in live, pd.exe is started and fully quit, if i remove that plugin again.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/pdvst_PD_freeverb.zip

the download here : http://crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/pdvst/ is working fine (again?).

there are quite a lot of angles in this to screw up. i haven't worked with this for ages, but remember, that i got a quite simple audio-plugin to work in cubase years ago.

if you are certain to have everything correct in the pdv file, your plugin.dll and the plugin.pd and pd running in the right place, try different hosts.

mhh, it seems to be not that easy to get it work. first time i used it, i ran it in vst-host (a simple vst host and chaining app) and only used the simple example patches that came with pdvst. that worked quite well, but i tried to get one of own patches to run in sonar, and i stuck... sorry, no help a the moment!

it would help to know, where you have problems with pdvst. i just tried it out one time and i got it work quickly. i found the installation instructions of pdvst were easily understood.

one thing i really would like is to use PD with renoise and plogue bidule,but as far as i know(in my little PD newb head)PD doesent use rewire,so how would one set it up?

i use bidule as master and renoise as slave

on thing i could do is use the PDvst with the patches i want to use from PD,thats the only thing i can think of,is there another way?

would it be possible to recreate this live patch from max/msp in PD??

im trying to build myself a live setup,my plan is to use renoise 2,1,plogue bidule 0,9688 and PD/PDvst for this

http://grrrr.org/ext/vst/
http://www.halftheory.com/hetleveiker/pdvst.html

the first link is to download the actual stuff you need and the second is for a vst somebody has already made

if it weren't for the WIN only i would be all over this...

thanks for reply hardoff, can you explain me better? this is the matter:
I like the idea to use pd inside cubase (or any other software vst compatible) but it seems that pdvst recognizes dependencies only if I put them inside pdvst folder, I'm afraid I have to reorganize all the hard disk if I want continuing to use pdvst.

Another problem is: I load a pdvst effect and the patch (with no graphical guys) is opened inside the host software (cool! . Ok, now if I close this window I cannot reopen anymore (damn!:() and have to destroy/reload the effect.

->for example, [./synths/obsynth]

this is by the command line?

Hi all, I had some technical questions about pdvst, instead of writing to Joseph Sarlo I thought it was better to open a new topic about it, it's the first:

-Anyone knows how can I add new search paths for patches or other files inside pdvst?

thanks